how to fill array with array?

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hi brothers

 

Let say i have array names

 

$names['john'];

$names['joey'];

$names['joe'];

$names['joel'];

$names['joseph'];

 

 

I want to fill these array names above with fruit names,

$fruit['banana'];

$fruit['apple'];

$fruit['grape'];

$fruit['guava'];

$fruit['strawberry'];

 

 

so for example,

$names['john'] = $fruit['banana'];

$names['john'] = $fruit['apple'];

$names['john'] = $fruit['grape'];

$names['john'] = $fruit['guava'];

$names['john'] = $fruit['strawberry'];

 

$names['joey'] = $fruit['banana'];

$names['joey'] = $fruit['apple'];

$names['joey'] = $fruit['grape'];

$names['joey'] = $fruit['guava'];

$names['joey'] = $fruit['strawberry'];

 

and soon...

 

but i want this to be automatic using loops (for or foreach).

 

Can you show me please...

 

Thank you...

 

 

 

[balistic]

Use multi-dimensional arrays?

 

$names = array( array("fruit", "banana"),
               array("fruit", "apple"),
               array("fruit"," grape") 
             ); 

 

used like, $names[0][1] which would hold the value of "banana"

 

i dont really get why you need the fruit array but ah well, you can remove it if its not needed.

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balistic i know that, what i want is to fill an array with array using loop because i'm using a dynamic array.

Because the array values will came from DATABASE.

 

Anyone with better answer please.

 

 

[dclamp]

have a look at array_fill_keys()

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can you show me how to implement that?, using my example above?

[dclamp]

Did you even look at the link i posted? It explains it very clearly.

 

$names = array(); // blah blah blah
$fruits = array(); // blah bla

$arrayfill = array_fill_keys($names, $fruits)

 

couldnt get any harder than that.

[balistic]

<?php
$names = array( array("fruit", "banana"),
               array("fruit", "apple"),
               array("fruit","orange") 
             ); 
echo "<ol>";
for ($row = 0; $row < 3; $row++)
{
    echo "<li><b>The row number $row</b>";
    echo "<ul>";

    for ($col = 0; $col < 2; $col++)
    {
        echo "<li>".$names[$row][$col]."</li>";
    }

    echo "</ul>";
    echo "</li>";
}
echo "</ol>";
?>

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dclamp thank you.

 

balistic thank you also but you need to improve your coding make it shorter just like dclamp

[balistic]

they both server different objectives, maybe if you were a bit clearer on what you were after...